Thursday, July 18, 2013

HB
937 was making the partial repeal of the current Jim Crow-era pistol
permit system look like a reality. Then, the political pressure mounted.

GRNC has learned that the partial repeal of the current, old-fashioned
system is in jeopardy, and worse, the current system might become even
more complicated and restrictive. The NRA has not “signed off” on the
partial repeal of the old permit system, and worse, someone has
convinced HB 937 sponsor, Rep. Jacqueline Michelle Schaffer, to modify
the language such that NICS checks are to be required for pistols
purchased with permits more than 30 days old. There are two problems with this:

The
NCSA has already said that NICS checks are not adequate. So why subject
law-abiding gun owners to additional pointless background checks?

According
to GRNC President, Paul Valone, "This action would punish innocent gun
owners for the malfeasance of the NCSA, and is unacceptable!"

Speaker
Tillis, Representative Schaffer and Governor McCrory are poised to bow
to the NCSA pressure. This would be a major sellout of North Carolina
gun owners. If political pressure pushes these politicians to punish us,
GRNC may encourage gun owners to sit out the 2014 midterm elections.
The Speaker, Rep. Schaffer, Gov. McCrory and all of the Republicans
in Raleigh need to know that they can’t take gun owners for granted, and
any anti-gun actions will not be tolerated. See below to learn what you
can do to let these politicians know what you think of their proposed
anti-gun deal.

An inflatable abdominal tourniquet recently revived two men who were
moments away from bleeding to death. The device could have saved three
soldiers per month between 2001 and 2010, the U.S. Army says.

On June 7 in Birmingham, Ala., a blood-soaked, unconscious
41-year-old man arrived at a hospital in the passenger seat of a car.
The man had lost 75 percent of his blood through two bullet holes in his
armpit, and when nurses pulled him from the car at 4:50 p.m., he was
less than 5 minutes away from dying.

At 4:53 p.m, a former Army surgeon and inventor named John Croushorn
strapped an inflatable tourniquet around the limp man's chest. "We were
all covered in blood. The nurse was applying pressure, and I told her to
remove her hands," Croushorn tells Popular Science. "She said
'No, blood's just going to go everywhere again.' And I said 'It's okay,
you can take your hands away.' So she did, and she was shocked. There
wasn't a drop of blood coming out once the tourniquet was on." They
rushed the man to the operating room, where a surgeon was able to repair
the damage to his arteries.

One of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier Lee Rigby Michael Adeboladzho was attacked in prison.
The central management of the British police confirmed that they had
received a message about the attack, and noted that the investigation is
being conducted. BBC News reports that the attack was committed on Adeboladzho July 17. During the beating his two front teeth were knocked out.The identity of the attackers have not been announced. Adeboladzho is contained in Belmarsh prison in south-east London.

In his new book, Handgun Training for Personal Protection,
firearms trainer Richard Mann admits that acquiring a good tactical
light was one of the first investments he made after becoming a police
officer.

It’s easy to see why. Good flashlights are a game changer
for concealed carry or armed duty and should be a part of your everyday
carry kit (EDC). Today’s tactical lights are powerful enough to provide
total illumination of an area, your target and your handgun’s sights.
They can virtually blind an attacker momentarily, providing a
split-second advantage.

But what is the best flashlight technique
to use while deploying your handgun for self-defense? That depends on
the situation. Here are Richard Mann’s 4 techniques to know and
practice.

The sponsor of that bill, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said
Wednesday that Congress meant only to allow seizures directly relevant
to national security investigations. No one expected the government to
obtain every phone record and store them in a huge database to search
later.

As Deputy Attorney General James Cole explained why that was necessary,
Sensenbrenner cut him off and reminded him that his surveillance
authority expires in 2015.

"And unless you realize you've got a problem," Sensenbrenner said, "that is not going to be renewed."

None of our businessand the public is dead set against it.

Gen. Dempsey: US Considering Use of Force in Syria

The nation's top military officer told a Senate panel Thursday the
Obama administration is deliberating whether to use military power in
Syria, where a civil war entering its third year has killed almost
93,000 people.

Amid an increasing clamor among President Bashir Assad's opposition
for active U.S. involvement, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said during
congressional testimony that he has provided President Barack Obama with
options for the use of force. But he declined to detail those choices,
saying "it would be inappropriate for me to try to influence the
decision with me rendering an opinion in public about what kind of force
we should use."

The remarks by the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman came after Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., asked him which approach in Syria would carry a
greater risk: continued limited action on the part of Washington or more
significant actions such as the establishment of a no-fly zone and
arming the rebel forces with the weapons they need to stem the advance
Assad's forces.

"Senator, I am in favor of building a moderate opposition and
supporting it," Dempsey said. "The question whether to support it with
direct kinetic strikes ... is a decision for our elected officials, not
for the senior military leader of the nation."

Note:
This article is part two of a four part series investigating the links
between the United States Department of Agriculture and radical animal
rights organizations. These articles were written by Philip
Christofanelli, with The Cavalry Group, a national organization which defends the Constitutional rights of animal owners and breeders. Visit the previous article here.The
bottom line is that the contemporary “animal rights” movement and its
various factions are not what they seem. For every legitimate concern,
there are dozens of front groups operated and funded by extremists with
radical agendas. For instance, over the past several years, the ASPCA,
PETA, and HSUS have been waging a war against so-called “puppy mills.”
They lead Americans to believe that their focus is on rogue,
unscrupulous dog breeders, but in a recent interview,
the ASPCA admitted that they consider even law-abiding dog breeders to
be “puppy mills.” Animal rights activists hold the belief that bringing
new, pure-bred dogs into existence is unethical so long as there are
dogs in shelters. Thus, they seek to put every law-abiding dog breeder
permanently out of business by any means necessary.

A Vancouver, Washington man has cited advice from Vice President Joe
Biden in his defense for allegedly illegally firing his shotgun to
dispel suspected car thieves.

“Jeffery Barton, 52, pleaded not guilty to one count of illegal
aiming or discharging a firearm at his arraignment in Clark County
Court,” according to KOIN.com.
“Barton reportedly admitted to deputies that he fired his weapon while
chasing away people who he thought were breaking into his vehicles,”
they added.

Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) said Thursday morning that President Obama
and first lady Michelle Obama are using Air Force One and other
official aircraft as their "personal toys."

"I'm not suggesting ... that we compromise safety or security," Coble
said on the House floor. "But the first family, it seems to me, treats
Air Force One and related aircraft as their personal toys — a very
expensive toy, I might add."

She says she had no warning that someone was going to search her car
after she left to catch her flight. So the woman contacted News10NBC.
We found out it happened to her because she valet parked her car. Those are the only cars that get inspected.
So if security feels it is necessary to search some cars in the name of safety, why not search all of them?
Laurie Iacuzza walked to her waiting car at the Greater Rochester
International Airport after returning from a trip and that's when she
found it -- a notice saying her car was inspected after she left for her
flight. She said, “I was furious. They never mentioned it to me when I
booked the valet or when I picked up the car or when I dropped it off.”

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-NJ, said sources told him that survivors of the
Benghazi terrorist attack have been asked to sign non-disclosure
agreements and now the New Jersey congressman is demanding to know who
else was forced to sign the documents.
“According to trusted sources that have contacted my office, many, if
not all, of the survivors of the Benghazi attacks – along with others
at the Department of Defense and CIA – have been asked or directed to
sign additional Non-Disclosure Agreements about their involvement in the
Benghazi attacks,” Wolf said on the House floor. “Some of these “new”
NDAs, as they call them, I have been told, were signed as recently as
this summer.”

The congressman expressed grave concerns that federal workers might have been coerced into silence.

“Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,”says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.

“Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies,” the CDC study, entitled “Priorities For Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” states.

The report, which notes that “ violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past five years,” also pointed out that “some firearm violence results in death, but most does not.” In fact, the CDC report said, most incidents involving the discharge of firearms do not result in a fatality.

So says a low-level IRS whistleblower who will testify on Capitol Hill tomorrow morning. The Washington Post reports:

The chief counsel’s office for the Internal Revenue Service, headed
by a political appointee of President Obama, helped develop the
agency’s problematic guidelines for reviewing “tea party” cases,
according to a top IRS attorney.In
interviews with congressional investigators, IRS lawyer Carter Hull
said his superiors told him that the chief counsel’s office, led by
William Wilkins, would need to review some of the first applications the
agency screened for additional scrutiny because of potential political
activity. Previous accounts from IRS employees had shown that Washington IRS officials were involved in the controversy, but Hull’s comments represent the closest connection to the White House to date.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric
Holder reminding him that the Department of Justice has an obligation to
inform Congress when Operation Fast and Furious weapons are found at
crime scenes. Just last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Mexican Police Chief Luis Astorga and his body guard were killed by cartels using guns from the lethal operation.

"Since the beginning of this investigation, we have followed the link
between Fast and Furious weapons and crimes committed on both sides of
the border. On numerous occasions we have asked the Department to keep
us apprised of Fast and Furious weapon recoveries -- especially as they
relate to violent crimes," Grassley wrote.

Dream Defenders, the main group that has been agitating the protest
movement surrounding the Trayvon Martin case, was spawned by activists
employed by a who’s who of the race-hijacking radical left.

From the socialist-oriented SEIU union to ACORN to Occupy to a litany
of George Soros-funded organizations, the deep connections behind Dream
Defenders raises questions about the motivation of an organization that
claims to be a grassroots effort working to oppose racism.

Dream Defenders has been leading Martin protests since the onset and
has been credited with agitating for George Zimmerman’s arrest.

Those who stood, those who fell: fatal cases

Critics say "stand your ground" turned Florida into the Wild West.
Supporters say it has helped keep innocents out of jail. The truth of
how the law has been used over the past six years was unknown until now

What follows is the most comprehensive list of "stand your ground"
cases ever created. Browse by victim or defendant, by fatal or nonfatal
cases. Hover over a photo to explore the basics of each case or click it
for a more detailed case file. Use the buttons at right to filter by
race, sex and location.

Say it ain’t so?! Conservative icon and former Neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, stated on the Hannity Show that George Zimmerman should have been charged with 3rd-degee murder and done jail time. Carson, who announced that he would be jumping into politics, may have just sunk his political career.

Carson’s statement is sure to fuel the current NAACP/DOJ race-baiting efforts of looking into a possible civil rights case against George Zimmerman.

According to a Fox News report, former Congressman Allen West “questioned why the NAACP honed in on the Zimmerman case but have been more silent on the violence seen in cities like Chicago, where over this past weekend alone reports listed 10 black children or teens being killed.”

When I went to the site it showed my recent books and among them was Ripcord; Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970 which I checked out of the Carteret Community College library. Do they have someway of accessing books people check out from libraries or could this have been picked up from my post about it? Very, very strange to me.

Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.

In this
case, the mass e-book removals were motivated by copyright . A company
called MobileReference, who did not own the copyrights to the books 1984 and Animal Farm, uploaded both books to the Kindle store and started selling them. When the rights owner heard about this, they contacted Amazon
and asked that the e-books be removed. And Amazon decided to erase them
not just from the store, but from all the Kindles where they'd been
downloaded. Amazon operators used the Kindle wireless network, called
WhisperNet, to quietly delete the books from people's devices and refund
them the money they'd paid.

An uproar followed, with outraged customers pointing out the irony that Amazon
was deleting copies of a novel about a fascist media state that
constantly alters history by changing digital records of what has
happened.

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.